Acorn Management Partners Professional Relations Strategy

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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Acorn Management Partners (“AMP”) is a professional relations company that assists small and micro-cap companies through today’s evolving markets. The companies Acorn represents have quality management, comparable potential to their competitors or potential acquirers, projected catalysts that should validate the stock through an event, story, or execution of their business model over time.

AMP has shown the ability to expand a company’s capital market exposure through financial professionals by using their proprietary CRM platform. AMP is currently recognized as the only Professional Relations company in the US that specializes in building a shareholder rich, professionally backed and enhanced trading market on Wall Street. AMP’s results have been proven over twenty times in the last 18 months. Validation on a grand and consistent scale that to date is unmatched by any other non-licensed entity on Wall Street. The AMP model has consistently shown an increase in the amount of a company’s shareholder base and market capitalization. A byproduct of those actions is a steady rise in trading volume, therefore increasing the company’s funding opportunities and institutional ownership.

The Market Has Changed, So We Must Change

So, why have all the IR programs that publicly traded companies hire, been so inept in helping increase their company’s market exposure? Well, it starts with an understanding that the market has changed. In order to meet these changes and overcome them, we must change our approach regarding retail broker support in publicly traded companies. Over the last 6-9 years, there has been an erosion of market support through brokers, broker-dealers and investment banking. Without professional support in the small and micro-cap markets, it’s nearly impossible for companies to capitalize and stabilize their shareholder base through retail brokers. In the past, companies signed banking or consulting agreements with a BD to gain access to their sales force of retail brokers for open market support. That world does not exist anymore as the SEC and FINRA do not allow for highly placed concentrations at any one BD for lower priced stocks, most notably, companies on the OTC markets!

Promoters and Hype IR Destroy Shareholder Bases

Most IR firms in the small and micro-cap space are stock promoters that typically drive small traders to stocks using newsletters, email blasts, and social media campaigns. This would be considered an “unsophisticated market”. Investors BUILD shareholder bases while traders DESTROY them. Let’s be honest, professionals do not buy stocks because they received an email, or because they went to a HOTSTOCK website. To make this simple, ask yourself this, “Would you invest your hard earned money based on a single email from a HOTSTOCK website”? If the answer is NO, then why would you ever allow them to represent you? Brokers initiate positions in stocks when an idea is professionally presented to them over time.

So, why does your stock need AMP?

No one in the market does what AMP does. Any company that tries to compare themselves to Acorn just doesn’t have the experience, sales technique, nor a broker-client relationship understanding within their work effort. AMP is owned by two ex-top producing brokers with over 45 years of broker and broker training experience. This comes in handy when training their employees on how to sell and speak to brokers. The sales team at AMP eats, sleeps, and speaks broker every day. This is why you need AMP and why AMP has shown the ability to build a company’s presence in thepublic markets. AMP presents your corporate story (stock) to financial professionals at a rate of over 3,000 phone calls per month, while personally developing a relationship for the company with each broker, thereby validating your company’s future (investable projected value) with a series of actions explaining the company.

AMP executes this through upcoming catalyst(s), while the stock validates itself to the financial professional through a chain of events, stories, and/or execution of the company’s business model. Nobody does what AMP does. No email blasting, No more expensive non-effective roadshows.

Acorn Management Partners separates themselves from all other companies within the IR space and has created a new Professional Relations industry. AMP is not IR. Acorn Management Partners believes in giving their clients transparency with details regarding their execution model. The proof is in the pudding. Meaning, AMP will report it, and then prove it through conference calls and introductions to rep’s, brokers and BD’s. Acorn will also provide a printed monthly activity report so that every company and director can validate Acorn’s value through the pipeline of activities and brokers. Contact information includes: Brokers Name, firm name, email, phone, date and last conversation with them. NO ONE in this space does this, only Acorn.

AMP is THE ONLY Company that has built a platform designed to replace lost retail support. AMP’s CRM database of 400,000 + licensed brokers all over the US, was designed to increase a company’s shareholder base therefore reducing concentration levels at any one BD. Your primary focus should be on Financial Professionals that recommend stocks to their book of 300-500 clients and institutions.

AMP will drive long-term investors to own a company for fundamental reasons, therefore steadily increasing the shareholder base and creating a truly “sophisticated market”. This is done by creating relationships with professionals. This begins with a series of actions explaining upcoming catalyst while a company validates itself through an event, story, or execution of its business model.

Partners and Consulting—Value Added Service

At Acorn Management Partners there is more than meets the eye. They not only offer their main platform of Professional Relations. But also offers consulting services that will help lead your company in the right direction. AMP has departments for financing and capital markets needs through their established relationships with Investment Boutiques, Institutions, and other entities and accredited individuals. While AMP is not licensed to raise securities or capital. AMP is fully equipped and able to provide you with willing entities that may in fact help your company achieve their capital needs and requirements. AMP works alongside its client as partners in business. Acorn likes to get such a close up feel for their clients that they are in fact company evangelists.

Now… let’s separate Acorn Management Partners from all other companies in our space.

Acorn believes in giving their clients transparency with details regarding their execution model. The proof is in the pudding. AMP will report its efforts, and then prove it through conference calls and introductions to Rep’s, brokers and broker-dealers “BD’s”.

Then they will also provide a printed monthly activity report, so that every company and director can validate Acorn’s value through the pipeline of activities and brokers. Contact information includes: broker’s name, firm name, email, phone, date and last conversation with them.

NO ONE in this space does this besides AMP.

AMP has a trained sales team and a system to account for their results and verify them on a daily basis. AMP knows most successful companies verify their books, sales, contracts, OEM’s, etc. But for some reason companies don’t demand reports and verification of all the financial communications work that supposedly has been performed for their benefit.

AMP believes that verifying all data and results on a timely basis is the only correct approach, so, together, AMP and your company have the desired end result. Acorn’s proprietary CRM software and database, enables them to manage your project/company down through their 8 step sales process including all the minor details.

On average an AMP client stays with Acorn in excess of 12 months and as long as two to three years. Acorn Management Partners are a long-term Professional Relations partner that replaces the need for short-term IR type campaigns.

By now, you know all too well that your company cannot do this on your own, nor can AMP help your company accomplish its goals without your help. This has to be an active partnership to be successful and that’s why Acorn prides itself on being your company’s partner in business and in the market. Acorn Management Partners would like to have a chance to be successful for you.